Happy New Year... and some resolutions!

Posted by Tom on Jan 02, 2013

Hello, and happy new year from all of us at Nosy Crow!

We can’t wait to share lots of wonderful new books and apps with you in 2013 (starting next week, with our January titles), and we’ll be blogging (as usual) every day about the things that have caught our attention, so check back! You can also subscribe to our monthly books newsletter here and our apps announcement mailing list here.

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Somewhat unimaginatively, I’ve been thinking about New Year’s Resolutions today. My personal resolutions are decidedly unambitious ones (finally get around to watching The Killing; make proper stock from the leftovers of a roast chicken rather than throwing the bones away) and when I asked everyone in the office today for some work-related ones there was one collective answer: Get On Top Of Email. So I thought I’d hand the floor over to you all – what are your resolutions for 2013, book-related or otherwise?

To get you started, here are some of the ones people volunteered on Twitter:

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I started the year as I mean to go on – by having a nice lie-in. And then made one resolution: to be truthful. Which means I can happily get away with indulging in all my vices to the same extent as before, safe in the knowledge that I’m keeping my resolution by not being a hypocrite.
More seriously, I intend to do lots of writing. Not sure if that counts as a resolution though, as it would take a huge amount of self-restraint for me not to write. Over the past couple of days an idea for a book has formed in my head. All I need to do is get it out of my head and onto my computer now, and then…if you didn’t have an uncle called Bob before, you soon will.